See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

ALEXANDER See also:

• ALEXANDER WILSON (1766-1813)
• WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
• WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
• WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
• WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
• WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
• WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
• WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
• WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
• WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
• WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
• WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
• WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
• WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
• WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )

WILSON (1766-1813)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American ornithologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PAISLEY
• PAISLEY, CLAUD HAMILTON, LORD (c. 1543-1622)

Paisley, See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, on the 6th of See also:

• JULY

July 1766 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a handloom See also:

• WEAVER, JAMES BAIRD (1833- )

weaver, soon removed to the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and there combined See also:

• WEAVING

weaving with See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture, distilling and See also:

• SMUGGLING

smuggling —conditions which no doubt helped to develop in the boy that love of rural pursuits and See also:

• ADVENTURE (from Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)

adventure which was to determine his career . At first he was placed with a See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor and destined for the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, but afterwards he was apprenticed as a weaver . Then he became a peddler and spent a See also:

• YEAR

year or two in travelling through Scotland, recording in his See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal every See also:

• MATTER

matter of natural See also:

• HISTORY

history or antiquarian See also:

• INTEREST

interest . Having incurred a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short imprisonment for lampooning the See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master-weavers in a See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade dispute, he emigrated to See also:

• AMERICA

America in 1794 . After a few years of weaving, peddling and desultory observation, he became a See also:

• VILLAGE

village schoolmaster, and in 1802 obtained an See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment near See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, where he formed the acquaintance of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William Bartram the naturalist . Under his See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence See also:

• WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
• WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
• WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
• WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
• WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
• WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
• WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
• WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
• WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
• WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
• WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
• WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
• WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
• WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
• WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )

Wilson began to draw birds, having conceived the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of illustrating the See also:

• ORNITHOLOGY

ornithology of the See also:

• UNITED

United States; and thenceforward he steadily accumulated materials and made many expeditions . In 18o6 he obtained the assistant-editorship of the American edition of See also:

• REES, THOMAS (1777–1864)

Rees's See also:

• ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Encyclopaedia, and thus acquired more means and leisure for his See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• WORK

work, American Ornithology, the first See also:

• VOLUME

volume of which appeared in the autumn of 18o8, after which he spent the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter in a See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey" in See also:

• SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search of birds and sub-scribers." By the See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of 1813 seven volumes had appeared; but the arduous expedition of that summer, in search of the marine waterfowl to which the remaining volume was to be devoted, gave a See also:

• SHOCK, or COLLAPSE

shock to his already impaired See also:

• HEALTH

health, and he succumbed to See also:

• DYSENTERY (from the Gr. prefix Ova-, in the sense of " bad," and Evmpov, the intestine)

dysentery at Philadelphia on the 23rd of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1813 . Of his poems, not excepting the Foresters (Philadelphia, 1805), nothing need now be said, See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save that they no doubt served to develop his descriptive See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers . The eighth and ninth volumes of the American Ornithology were edited after his decease by his friend See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George Ord, and the work was continued by Lucien See also:

• BONAPARTE

Bonaparte (4 vols., Philadelphia, 1825-1833) . The See also:

• COMPLETE

complete work was re-published several times, and has See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

Miscellaneous See also:

• PROSE

Prose See also:

• WORKS

Works and Poems was edited with a memoir by the Rev . A .

B . See also:

• GROSART, ALEXANDER BALLOCH (1827-1899)

Grosart (Paisley, 1876) . A statue was erected to him at Paisley in 1876 .